Has Zenmap Vanished from 20.04?
I've Just Changed My Primary Computer from a Laptop Running Xfce and 19.10 to a Desktop Running Gnome 3 and 20.04 Overall I'm Very Impressed. One of the Tools...
I've just changed my primary computer from a laptop running XFCE and 19.10 to a desktop running Gnome 3 and 20.04 overall I'm very impressed.
One of the tools I tend to use all the time is Zenmap but I can't locate it in either the software catalogue or via running apt in a terminal window, so I assume it's been removed.
So
- What's the rationale for this? Are their issues with Zenmap I should be aware of?
- Is there a simpler way of installing then the way outlined on Nmap's site (i.e. )
- Is there an alternative application that will let me port scan my LAN (IP address / open TCP port is a must-have, description of service and UDP ports are a nice to have since I'm generally just checking if a known port can be seen)
1 Answer
It was removed from the repository due to relying on Python 2 which reached End-of-Life at the start of 2020. You can install Zenmap manually from 19.10 repository:
mkdir -p ~/Downloads/zenmap
cd ~/Downloads/zenmap
wget
wget
sudo apt install ./python-gtk2_2.24.0-6_amd64.deb ./zenmap_7.80+dfsg1-1build1_all.deb
and enjoy.
If one does not want to use manually downloaded deb-packages, then it is possible to use Flatpak version of ZenMap as follows:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flatpak
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub
flatpak install flathub org.nmap.Zenmap
Such installation needs ~330 Mb of downloads, and will use ~1 Gb on disk.
Note: I have filed bug-report launchpad as with packaging request.
The GitHub issue tracker for porting Zenmap to Python 3 can be found here.
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